Famous quotes containing the words victor hugo, victor, hugo and/or paris:
“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“He’s got a fifteen percent metabolism with an overactive thyroid and a glandular affectation of about three percent. With a one percent mentality. He’s what we designate as the Crummy Moronic type.”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)